a team of scientists and engineers with the Ocean Exploration Trust were exploring the seafloor in the Gulf of Mexico when they came across a larger brine pool, which looks like underwater lake.

"Deep-sea brine pools are a great analogue for the ... only three bodies of water are known to host these rare pools: the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.

Does the proposal to move such discharge out into the Gulf of Mexico mollify you at all, or is it just moving the harm? Cyndi Valdes: Desalination brine, when returned to the Gulf of Mexico ...